Healthy and Chewy Coconut Cookie

     

Healthy Coconut Chewy Cookie

Well, guilty, I like my morning coffee accompanied by cookie.  To soften the blow to my health and figure,  I'm in constant search of healthy cookie recipe. Here is the version I come up with recently.  Yeah, it's vegan gluten- flour- sugar- bla- bla- bla- free.

For about 25 decent sized cookies:

- 3 cups  unsweetened coconut flakes

- 3 cups pitted dates (I used Medjool kind)

- 1 cup pitted prunes (optional,  they give a little sour note)

- 2 tsp cinnamon (I always use Ceylon one)

- 1/2 cup of water (to moisten enough to get the dough together)

1) Place all ingredients, except water, in a food processor.  Process until all mixed together well for about 1 minute.  Add water at the end.  You should get sticky thick moist dough.

2). Scoup dough into covered with parchment paper baking sheet. Flatten with a bottom of glass. To avoid dough sticking to a bottom of glass,  use plastic wrap (tip!).

3). Bake in a preheated to 359F oven for about 20 min. 

4). When removed from oven,  place on a cooling rack.  

Notes:

- keep cookies in a covered cookie jar, they will be more chewy the next day.  

- you can use vanilla instead of cinnamon.

- prunes totally optional.  Also you can replace them with any other dry fruits or berries like cranberry,  apricots,  etc. 

- you will need large capacity processor,  or cut the volume of all ingredients in half. 

- if you bake cookies without flattening them,  you'll get soft cookies that are yummy too (see the last photo on this page).